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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Nsf Funds CM Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Privacy and Security
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a Ph.D. program in usable privacy and security...
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Defying Experts, Rogue Computer Code Still Lurks
Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program...
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Federal Grants Aim to Boost STEM Equity
Two programs created to get more minority and female students interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects and careers have received...
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sing Robots to Serve the Elderly at Home
Robots that lend a very human-like helping hand to healthy elderly people with limited mobility may be on the horizon, thanks to three University of Illinois at...
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Managing Disasters With High-Tech Imaging Could Save Lives
The Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response, a partnership between the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University at Buffalo (UB)...
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Online Social Networks Leak Personal Information to Third-Party Tracking Sites
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) study by professor Craig Wills found that the practices of many popular social networking sites can make personal information...
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Worldwide Battle Rages For Control of the Internet
Governments in the Middle East and north Africa routinely block and censor Web sites to control political discussions, according to a new report on the region by...
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Computer Science Meets Environmental Science
Scientists share knowledge and seek collaborators at computational sustainability conference.
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Facing an Age-Old Problem
Researchers are addressing the computing challenges of older individuals, whose needs are different — and too often disregarded.
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Medical Nanobots
Researchers working in medical nanorobotics are creating technologies that could lead to novel health-care applications, such as new ways of accessing areas of...
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Women in It: Success and Struggle
Female participation in the information technology (IT) industry is growing and women now account for 15 percent to 25 percent of technical professionals, although...
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Grid Computing, the New Commodity
The European Union-funded GridEcon project has developed a platform for trading computing resources and buying and selling standardized computing resources. GridEcon's...
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Robot's Gentle Touch Aids Delicate Cancer Surgery
Canadian researchers have developed a robot capable of detecting tumor tissue in half the time it takes a human surgeon and with 40 percent greater accuracy while...
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Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts
Opinions expressed on the Internet can determine the eventual success or failure of a product, and tools stemming from the emergent field of sentiment analysis...
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Web Tools Help Protect Human Rights Activists
A new generation of Internet privacy tools is being developed to prevent governments from gathering data, such as where users access the Internet from. One tool...
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Competitions Aim to Create Interest in Cybersecurity
U.S. government, industry, and academia are using cybersecurity competitions to interest high school and college students about the career opportunities in cybersecurity...
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Study Finds that Online Education Beats the Classroom
Students' performance in online education settings tended to trounce that of those receiving face-to-face instruction, according to a study SRI International carried...
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Pay-Per-Email Plan to Beat Spam and Help Charity
Yahoo! researchers are testing a scheme in which users pay one cent for each email message they send, with the money going to charity, in an effort to cut back...
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Mobile Data Show Friend Networks
A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy by studying cellphone call records...
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